Pit (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Archaeological Feature
A discrete excavation directly attributable to human activity. Use more specific term(s) if possible.
926-950 (1,464 Records)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mad as Hell Ruin site, comprised of multiple Salado compounds with trash mounds and artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of two heritage inventory forms, a site data card, three printed site maps, a hand drawn site map, and an archaeological site inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 1959.
Magnetometry Data - 2/20/2003 (2003)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Data - 6/5/2002 (2002)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Data - 6/6/2002 (2002)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Data - 7/3/2002 (2002)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Map (2004)
Composite map depicting results of 2002 and 2003 magnetometry surveys.
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Management Data Form: 5EP.1491 (2020)
Management Data Form for 5EP.1491
Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962
The Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection has its origins in a 1958 Smithsonian Institution survey of the Chattahoochee River basin in preparation for the construction of dams which resulted in the Walter F. George Reservoir. This survey identified Mandeville (9CY1) as the highest priority site found at that time. Excavations at Mandeville (9CY1) took place in 1959 under the direction of Principal Investigator James H. Kellar of the University of Georgia. He was assisted in the field by...
Mano Mama Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mano Mama site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of an Archaic lithic scatter; Preclassic Hohokam pit houses; Classic Hohokam compound, field house, and terraces; 1880s wagon road; and pre-WWII trash scatter. The file consists of two heritage inventory forms and a map of the site location. The oldest dated document is from 2000.
Maps (1985)
A small percentage of the maps reproduced from field data can be found in the series of published DAP reports, but a much larger collection of original material can be accessed via the Anasazi Heritage Center, Colorado. The maps dataset allows users to easily know what maps are available for any provenience. Maps were sequentially numbered within each site and later classified as one of 47 taxa, according to the type of information the map was meant to convey. Documenting the contents of a site...
Master Artifact and Sample Inventory (2023)
Complete inventory of all collected materials from the excavations of 41CR56, 41CR61 and 41CR64
Material Culture and Consumer Choices at Tech Flats: Archaeological and Historical Investigations of the Techwood/Clark Howell Urban Revitalization Tract, Atlanta, Georgia (1998)
Archaeological survey and data recovery were conducted by Brockington and Associates, Inc., at the Techwood/Clark Howell Homes Urban Revitalization Tract, in Atlanta, Georgia. Fieldwork within the 50 acre development tract was conducted in three phases over a period of approximately two years (between June 1995 and May 1997). Funding for these investigations was provided under a federal Housing and Urban Development Block Grant to the Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta (HACA) through...
The Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission Line Project, The Tower 29 Site: Re-Evaluation of Site 26CK3216, Clark County, Nevada (1996)
Salt River Project has constructed a 500kV transmission line from Boulder City, Nevada, to near Phoenix, Arizona; Site 26CK3216 was first recorded by the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) during archaeological survey of the Mead to Phoenix right-of-way (Keller 1986). The site was originally recommended for data recovery but was determined ineligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and construction proceeded without additional investigation. Biologists monitoring the Mead to...
Meddler Point Ruin Arizona Site Steward (1997)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Meddler Point Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a pueblo compound with accompanying artifact scatter, roasting pit, trash middens, wall, and burials. The file consists of a site information sheet, two maps of the site location, two cultural resources inventory forms, five site maps, multiple unlabeled information forms, a written overview of the 1929 survey method, an Arizona State University site survey form, an...
Media Day (2010)
Photographs from 2008, 2009, and 2010 Media Days at the site of Fort St. Joseph during which the press and members of the Western Michigan University and Niles communities and other involved parties were invited to experience talks and tours prior to the opening of the site to the public for the annual Archaeology Open House.
Medora Site, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (1951)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
''Meet, O Lord, On the Milk-White Horse'' Archaeological Data Recovery at Rephraim Plantation sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 (2005)
Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 between 27 January and 14 February 2003. Archaeological sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 are located in the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina. These investigations were conducted under the Treatment Plan (approved by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History) in partial fulfillment of the stipulations of a Memorandum of...
The Middle Gila Basin: An Archaeological and Historical Overview (1982)
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) , Indian Distribution Division (IDD) is designed to deliver allocated CAP water to Indian users. The Middle Gila Basin Overview is the initial cultural resources planning study for the system. It summarizes and evaluates the extant data in an area 3,570 square miles (9,139 sq km) large, centered on the Gila River. The data suggests that archaeological sites in this area are numerous and varied, but most of all poorly-studied despite 100 years of research. A...
Midway: Archaeological Profile of a Nineteenth Century Rice Plantation on Waccamaw Neck (1988)
Midway Plantation is a former rice plantation on Waccamaw Neck, Georgetown County, South Carolina. Established in the late eighteenth century, rice production as pursued throughout the nineteenth century through slave and tenant labor. Three components of the site were identified as significant and/or sensitive cultural resources. These include 38GE362 (the Midway manor house/main residential complex and a prehistoric campsite), 38GE363 (the slave/tenant village and prehistoric components), and...
Missouri Basin Chronology Program Statements Nos. 1-5 (1964)
This document includes the first five chronology program statements for the Missouri Basin Project. The Program, as it now stands, was developed during the winter of 1958 by the Personnel of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution; the laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska; and the Nebraska State Historical Society; all of Lincoln, Nebraska; and the National Park Service, Region Two Office, in Omaha, Nebraska. Concern for an over-all program of chronology grew out of an...
Mitigation Plan for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct (1979)
In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well....
Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1953 Excavation Project
The 1953 excavation at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5) was directed by Howard D. Winters and sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Illinois State Museum. Winters excavated two areas. An L-shaped area in the central portion of the Main Shelter area - was excavated in arbitrary 6-inch levels down to bedrock at a depth of about 19 feet below the post-road fill removal ground surface, or circa 118.72 m AMSL). The other area, which was located at the edge of the West Pillar, was excavated from...
Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1956 Excavation Project
The 1956 field season placed a deep excavation in the West Shelter area, and provided material from zones deeper than in previous years. An area approximately 20 x 30 feet was excavated in a contiguous block to circa 16 feet below the existing ground surface (the area had been subjected to removal of road fill). 117 5 x 5 foot units were excavated in 1-foot increments (levels). Dr. Melvin L. Fowler (Illinois State Museum) directed the excavations. The work was sponsored by the Illinois State...